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In article ,
says...

"BAR" wrote in message
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In article ,
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It's not the members. 74% of the NRA membership support universal
background checks. The nut case is Wayne LaPierre who happens to
get
all the media publicity. BTW ... he's not even the President of
the
NRA. He performs the roll of CEO and is the national spokesman
and
loud mouth. Problem is he doesn't present membership views ...
only
his own.

Please provide an objective source for your "74% of the NRA
membership
support universal
backgroud checks."

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These will get you started. Objectivity is up to you to determine:

http://www.bradycampaign.org/studies/view/240/

Not objective.

http://www.statesman.com/news/news/local/politifact-polls-show-support-for-gun-checks-even-/nXFMt/

No reference to where the 74% comes from.

http://www.politico.com/story/2013/01/ny-poll-big-backing-for-assault-ban-86333.html

Not objective.

http://www.thecrimereport.org/news/crime-and-justice-news/2013-02-polls-support-background-checks

Nearly three quarters (74 percent) of NRA members supported requiring
a background check
system ?for all gun sales? in a January online survey by the Johns
Hopkins Bloomberg School
of Public Health (respondents were recruited offline using a
probability sampling method).

This poll is suspect on its face.

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As I alluded to in my reply, I suspect *any* study or poll that
doesn't support your point of view is "suspect".
Doesn't matter. You are free to believe what you want to believe as
am I.

I distrust polls that only provide a final percentage without providing what the questions
are, what the acceptable answers were and what order the questions where asked.